A courageous last stand

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Young Alex Scott had an aggressive form of childhood cancer but that didnt stop her raising $1 million for charity

FEW PEOPLE change the world, but at the tender age of eight, Alexandra Scott has come close. You could say she’s moved mountains. Just before her first birthday, Alex, as she prefers to be called, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a mercifully rare but aggressive, painful and often fatal form of children’s cancer.

Her parents, Liz and Jay, then living in Connecticut, were given the grim facts by the doctors. They had removed a tumour the size of a cricket ball from Alex’s spine; the cancer had spread. She would never walk. Jay, a 36-year-old salesman, says: “We thought she had